day four.

[foxhounds]

SHIP-TRAP day four 28 players remaining The sun rises, and with it comes the loud gong of a bell, which signals that you're able to return to the grounds of the mansion. In fact, it seems like that same unseen force is compelling you to, since the longer you stay in the jungle, the more you feel the unsettling feeling of being watched. When you arrive, Iván is waiting at the foot of the stairs to greet you. "Good morning. Breakfast is waiting in the dining room." You have until 6PM to explore the grounds of the mansion and talk amongst yourselves. In addition, you can see the paper votes from the previous night's trial laid out by the guestbook if you want to confirm what you saw yesterday. rulebook character statuses character profiles private conversations graveyard The trial will start on August 20th. Though a special post for discussion will go up for voting, you are encouraged to discuss who to vote for throughout the day.

Comments

[foxhounds]

[ If you take a headcount once you're all together, you'll notice that Horikawa Kunihiro, Megumi Shimizu and Orion are missing. ]

questions

[foxhounds]

questions for ivan go here to be handwaved

[meatery]

[Predictably, Gi-ne's first priority is breakfast and she eats hers with the usual frightening speed. It's only once she's done with that that she looks out at everyone else, seeing who is likely to give her scraps checking that her friends are present and that there isn't anyone noticeably missing-

She frowns suddenly. Is there a significant dent in their numbers? She uses her finger to slowly count everyone under her breath- oh whoops, someone moved, time to start over- and gradually starts to look more and more concerned.]

Um! How... many of us were there yesterday?

[Please tell her she miscounted she was expecting to come up one short.]

[hopefragment]

Eh?

[Hinata's picking at his breakfast when Gi-ne asks her question, twisting in his seat to glance toward her. No not again, surely Rainsford protected the right person so there should still be-]

Thirty... one, I think.

[meatery]

[Oh shit. Quietly:] I got twenty-seven.

... No, wait, twenty-eight. I forgot to count me.

[hopefragment]

[Hinata goes stiff in his chair, then twists further. Time to count to check her math, since no offense Gi-ne, but...

But he gets the same number, too, face slowly going pale.]

M-maybe they're just late...

[meatery]

[No offence taken, she would very much like for her math to be wrong.]

It's nice outside... Maybe they wanted to sit out there. [It makes sense!!!] It hasn't been that long yet.

[hopefragment]

Yeah. Matt hasn't even done his roll-call yet.

[...Here though. He's worried now, so he pushes his breakfast toward her.]

You can finish this if you want, though. I'm gonna just wait a little longer to see if they show up, then... I'll go check around outside.

[meatery]

[She scrapes half of it onto her empty plate and then gives what's left back.] Growing boys need to eat.

[But she's not really thinking about that now, instead going over everyone's faces and trying to place who's missing.] Do you know who- ... isn't here right now?

[hopefragment]

[Gi-ne, don't waste food, gosh! Hinata ignores it for a moment, just looking around and shaking his head slowly.]

N-no. No one I've talked to a lot... um, that girl who found Detective Skye - Shimizu? - maybe one of the swords, and... that guy with the helmet, Orion...

T-there's no way it's three, though. It's too soon to say.

[ossifragant]

[Greed looks pretty nervous.]

Three? Three people this time?

[meatery]

[Well, she'll eat it if he really runs off without it but for now... Just eating the half that she took.]

Right. That sounds... right. [Oh, no, not three] It's probably just one though, at worst. Orion's probably doing some early morning training or something.

[He looked like the type? Let her have her wishful thinking.]

[meatery]

[Glances at Greed, looking fairly anxious.]

... I'm probably just rushing it. Matt doesn't normally do roll call for a little while, those guys are just a bit late.

[believesin]

Three people...? [Rena pushes her breakfast around on her plate.] How could we be missing three? [Someone who was killing people just died the other day!]

[meatery]

We're probably not. [Said very quickly. Don't cry, little girl.] It's probably just one.

[THAT'S NOT GOOD EITHER, GI-NE]

Um, maybe they went for a swim?

[hopefragment]

Did he do that?

[Hinata never noticed, but hopefully she's right... he sounds doubtful and just starts picking at his food again without really eating any of it.]

Maybe you're right...

[Still looks worried, though. Three people...]

[believesin]

[Now Gi-ne has cursed them to find three mutilated drowned people.] Maybe... But by now everyone should know to be here for when we're counting everybody up.

[Rena isn't going to cry, but she can't bring herself to be optimistic at the moment.]

[meatery]

Don't most people? [No, Gi-ne.] I do push-ups every morning at the very least!

... Maybe I shouldn't have said anything so early.

[believesin]

Rena would have asked Ivan what happens if the overseer dies. Tactfully, but come on, she must have heard all the discussion during the last trial.

[hopefragment]

They could have just lost track of time.

[Yeah, Hinata doesn't sound optimistic in the least, but he's trying for Rena's sake.]

Three people... is absurd.

[meatery]

[I've been waiting for that since we learned the setting tbh.]

Well- when they get here, we'll tell them off for being late!

[believesin]

I guess it is early. [If other people are going to try, she can try too.] It should be less than yesterday after--the trial.

[hopefragment]

...No, I don't think most people do that.

[He definitely doesn't! But he finally takes a bite of breakfast again. Thank for not eating it all on him.]

We'll... have to see.

[foxhounds]

She'll say that the Hunt cannot continue, but she'll also stress that it must continue. Rena is free to interpret it how she wants, but she'll get the impression that Ivan at least believes that something very bad will happen to everyone here if she dies.

[believesin]

[If it ever happens we will all know who is to blame.]

...Right. When they get here, we can tell them to keep track of time better next time. [She manages a bit of a smile.]